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The Kremlin was speaking a day after Germany said Navalny had been poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him.

The coronavirus has infected more than 26 million people around the world so far, killing at least 863,445 people.

Amazon has announced that it expects to create 10,000 new permanent jobs in the U.K. during 2020.

The French government detailed on Thursday its 100 billion euro stimulus plan to erase the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis over two years.

Apple, Google and Amazon are passing some of the costs of digital taxes to smaller companies.

Last month, TikTok announced that it was investing up to $500 million in a center in Ireland, its first in Europe.

SoftBank's investment into Biofourmis strikes a note of optimism for the troubled digital therapeutics space.

Stocks in emerging markets have lagged global share prices as those countries reported some of the world's highest numbers of cumulative coronavirus cases.

Outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's signature economic strategy "Abenomics" made Japan's economy stronger, but left many policy goals unmet.

Oil prices are likely to continue creeping up simply due to a weak dollar, an analyst said on Thursday.

Major gaming titles from companies including Tencent and NetEase were on the list of banned apps, as well a services from other Chinese technology giants like Baidu and Alibaba affiliate, Ant Group.

Twitter confirmed on Thursday that an account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked with a series of tweets asking its followers to donate to a relief fund through cryptocurrency.

The recovery in China's service sector activity extended into a fourth straight month in August, an industry survey showed on Thursday, with companies hiring more people for the first time since January.

A new Chinese restriction could complicate a sale by requiring approval for TikTok to sell its algorithm.

The Australian dollar has spiked 28% since a year-to-date low in March. As the country falls into recession, analysts remain mixed on where the currency could go next.

Toxicology results from a German military hospital showed "unequivocal evidence" of Novichok use, the nerve agent used to poison the Skripals in 2018.

Health experts say colder and drier conditions in winter strongly affects the transmission of flu-like illnesses.

Overnight on Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 1.5% to end its trading day at 3,580.84 while the Nasdaq Composite closed 1% higher at 12,056.44. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs, with the Nasdaq topping 12,000 for the first time.

Those polls come as the Trump and Biden campaigns attack each other over the coronavirus and other issues.

The U.S. could still reconsider its position of withdrawing from the WHO if the Trump administration finds that the organization made enough reforms.